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Terms & privacy

Last updated 11 September 2026

Blind Capture is a chess visualization drill, free to play with an optional subscription. This page says plainly what the site stores, what it does with it, and what you can expect from it. If anything here is unclear, the honest summary is: it keeps your username and your scores, and nothing else worth having.

What an account stores

Your password, if you use one, is stored only as a salted scrypt hash. It cannot be read back, by us or anyone else with the database.

What it does not do

Signing in with another service

If you sign in through Lichess, Google or Chess.com, that provider tells us your account id and username, and nothing more. We never see your password for that service. Revoking access from their side stops any further sign-in here; it does not delete what is already stored, which you can do yourself below.

Deleting your account

Open Profile and use Delete my account. That removes your user record, your saved rounds and your leaderboard entries immediately and permanently. There is no soft delete and no backup copy kept for you to recover from.

Free play and subscriptions

Everyone gets a set number of practice rounds each day at no cost, plus the daily board, which never counts against that allowance. The count resets at midnight UTC.

An optional subscription removes the daily limit. It is billed monthly in advance and renews automatically until cancelled. Prices are shown at checkout and include any tax we are required to collect.

Deleting your account does not cancel a Stripe subscription on its own — cancel it first, or contact us and we will.

Leaderboards and fair play

Only rounds solved without using Peek count toward the tables. Rounds finished faster than is physically plausible are flagged automatically and excluded. The position has to be sent to your browser in order to be shown to you, so a determined script can always read it — the leaderboards are best-effort, not tamper-proof, and they are for fun rather than for anything that matters.

What you can expect

This is a hobby project offered as-is, with no guarantee of uptime and no warranty. Accounts and scores may be lost. Please do not rely on it for anything important, and do not put anything sensitive in your username. Abuse of the service — automated play, attempts to break the leaderboards, or anything that degrades it for others — may lead to an account being removed.

Not affiliated

Blind Capture is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Chess.com, Lichess or Google. Those names are used only to describe the sign-in options.

Contact

Questions or a deletion request you cannot complete yourself: reach the site owner through the account you signed in with.